Luo Lingyuan

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Luo Lingyuan ( Chinese  罗 令 源 ; * 1963 in the People's Republic of China ) is a German-Chinese writer .

Writer Luo Lingyuan

Life

She studied journalism and computer science in Shanghai and has lived in Berlin since 1990 . Since 1992 she has published articles in German and Chinese in magazines and anthologies as well as novels.

In 2007 Luo Lingyuan was awarded the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize .

Works

In her book You are now flying for my son from the fifth floor! she describes in stories the fate of mostly young people who have to suffer from the brutality of the circumstances and the arbitrariness of autocratic officials. Some stories take place in the country, others in the emerging economic metropolises in southern China. The Chinese delegation is the sometimes funny, sometimes bitter report on the clash of two cultures: A group of Chinese officials and business leaders drives through half of Europe in 19 days. This leads to a violent conflict between the tyrannical head of the delegation and the young tour guide who has been living in the West for a long time. The novel Die Sterne von Shenzhen , set in 1997, was published at the end of 2008 and describes, using the example of the young, ambitious entrepreneur Dai, how the honest striving for prosperity for all and democratic ways of life in a constitutional state is damaged and undermined by crime, corruption and arbitrary bureaucratic arbitrariness become. Although Dai initially fails and his business is bankrupt (also because of his own hubris), this work has rightly been called "a hopeful novel". Her novel How a Chinese Woman Becomes Pregnant was published in October 2009 . The novel The Girl, the Cook and the Dragon , which was published in August 2013, is set in a Chinese restaurant in Berlin : A young woman is said to be forced into a relationship with a mafia boss in order to save her family.

bibliography

  • You're flying off the fifth floor for my son! . Stories. Munich 2005 (dtv).
  • The Chinese delegation . Novel. Munich 2007 (dtv).
  • Night swimming in the Rhine . Stories. Munich 2008 (dtv).
  • The stars of Shenzhen . Novel. Munich 2008 (dtv).
  • How a Chinese woman gets pregnant . Novel. Munich 2009 (dtv).
  • The girl, the cook and the dragon . Novel. Berlin 2013 (Quadriga).

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Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Luo is the family name here, Lingyuan is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Luo, Lingyuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 罗 令 源 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH People's Republic of China